Since 1949 Alexander Koroviakov has participated in Art Exhibitions. He painted portraits, landscapes, still lifes, genre paintings. Most famous for his still life paintings and cityscapes of Leningrad.
Alexander Koroviakov was very active in the exhibition life of Leningrad.
In 1956 he took part at Autumn exhibition (Leningrad, 1956) where he demonstrated the works: "The First Snow" and "The Palace Square" (both 1956). He designated his main direction of the creation: Leningrad cityscape from this moment. His basic technique was working directly from life.
Among his works there were "Spring in Leningrad", "St. Isaak's Square", "Near the Pier" (all 1957),[4]"Kronwerk Strait" (1960), "Stadium under the name of Lenin",[5]"Lenin Street", "Factory District" (all 1960), "At the Islands", "After the Snowfall", "Leningrad" (all 1962), "Wet Asphalt" (1963), "Winter Palace", "Near Peter and Paul Fortress" (both 1965), "On the Nevka River" (1964) and many others.
Besides the Leningrad motifs Alexander Koroviakov also worked on tradition landscape. He preferred intimate subjects: a corner of autumn garden or snow-covered yard, sparkling of light spots on the water. For example, in the works "Autumn Garden" (1965) and "At the Seliger Lake" (1965).
In 1960-1980 Alexander Koroviakov was keen by theme of Still life. His compositions were original, complicated by their technique and had associative content. Like in "Autumn Still life" (1972), "Dog Rose" (1969), "Still life with Cabbage" (1972),"Bouquet" (1979).
Alexander Koroviakov experimented a lot on painting technique, he tended to effects of capacity, semitransparency and polycoating of image.
In 1989 -1992 his works were presented at auctions and exhibitions of Russian paintings at France with great successes.
Alexander Petrovich Koroviakov died on 12 June 1993 in Saint Petersburg in the eighty-first year of life. His paintings reside in Art museums and private collections in Russia,[7] Japan, in the U.S., China, France,[8] and throughout the world.
^Directory of Members of the Union of Artists of USSR. Volume 1.- Moscow: Soviet artist, 1979. – p.540.
^Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.- Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – pp. 9, 21, 363, 391–397, 398, 399, 401, 402, 405, 406, 442, 444, 445.
^Anniversary Directory graduates of Saint Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, Russian Academy of Arts. 1915–2005. Saint Petersburg, Pervotsvet Publishing House, 2007. p.58.
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^Коровяков А. П. Стадион Ленина // 80 лет Санкт-Петербургскому Союзу художников. Юбилейная выставка. СПб., «Цветпринт», 2012. С.204.
^Directory of members of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation. Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1987. – p.62.
^Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.- Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – p.6-7.
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Юбилейный Справочник выпускников Санкт-Петербургского академического института живописи, скульптуры и архитектуры имени И. Е. Репина Российской Академии художеств. 1915—2005. СПб., «Первоцвет», 2007. С.58.
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